Mariano Díaz

Mariano Díaz Díaz was a Spanish professional road racing cyclist, born on 17 September 1939 and died on 5 April 2014, both times in Villarejo de Salvanés in the province of Madrid. He represented Spain at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, riding the individual road race and the team time trial. As a professional he rode mainly for the Spanish Fagor team from 1965 to 1969. His best season came in 1967 at the Vuelta a España, where he won a stage, took the mountains classification and placed ninth overall. He won a second Vuelta stage in 1969 and a stage of that year's Tour de France, and in 1968 he won the Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme.